Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early Americ

323 Michael Witgen, American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder

In the Treaty of Paris, 1783, Great Britain ceded to the United States all lands east of the...

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322 Karen Cook-Bell, Running from Bondage in Revolutionary America

During the War for American Independence, the British Army attempted to create chaos and inflict...

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321 BFW Team Favorite: Whose Fourth of July?

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to an anti-slavery society and he famously...

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321 BFW Team Favorite: Whose Fourth of July? (No Ad)

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to an anti-slavery society and he famously...

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Bonus: Cooking with Benjamin Franklin

Thank you for your support! Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706. In honor of...

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320 Benjamin Franklin's London House

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706, to Abiah Folger and Josiah Franklin....

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319 Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An Early American History

One of the Caribbean islands that Christopher Columbus stopped at during his 1492-voyage was an...

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Bonus: Colonial Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri

What challenges do National Park Service interpretive rangers face when they interpret...

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318 Ste. Geneviéve National Historical Park

About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis, sits the town of Ste....

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317 American Jewish Historical Society, Jews in Early America

The first Jewish colonists in North America arrived in 1654. From that moment, Jews worked to...

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316 Kathryn Olivarius, Yellow Fever, Immunity, & Early New Orleans

In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. This purchase included...

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315 David M. Rubenstein, History & American Democracy

What has enabled the American experiment in democracy to endure for nearly 250 years? What is...

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Bonus: The Object of History

The Massachusetts Historical Society has a podcast! In this bonus episode of Ben Franklin's...

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Bonus: Colin Calloway, Native Americans in American Cities

We rejoin Colin Calloway, Professor of History and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College,...

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314 Colin Calloway, Native Americans in Early American Cities

Have you ever considered early American cities as places where Native Americans lived, worked,...

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OI Reads: Carolyn Eastman, The Strange Genius of Mr. O

Welcome to OI Reads, an occasional series on Ben Franklin's World where we introduce you to new...

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313 Mike Duncan, The Marquis de Lafayette

You know “America’s favorite fighting Frenchman” is the Marquis de Lafayette. But what do you...

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312 Joshua Rothman, The Domestic Slave Trade

The transatlantic slave trade dominated in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. But...

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311 Katherine Carté, Religion and the American Revolution

Investigations of the American Revolution often include explorations of politics, ideology, trade...

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310 Rosalyn LaPier, The Blackfeet: A History

To understand early American history, we need to investigate and understand North America as an...

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